The 1974 Huntsville Siege Prison is an eleven-day prison rebellion that runs from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The impasse is one of the longest hostage siege in US history.
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Siege
From July 24 to August 3, 1974, Federico "Fred" Gomez Carrasco and two other inmates surrounded the Wall's building/library building. "Fred" Carrasco, the strongest heroin rabble in South Texas, served a life sentence for attempted murder of a police officer. He is also suspected in the murder of dozens of people in Mexico and Texas. After smuggling pistols and ammunition into prison, he and two other inmates brought in eleven prison workers and four prisoners inmates.
At the right moment that one working clock bell rang, Carrasco walked the way to the third-floor library and forced several prisoners out at gunpoint. When the two guards tried to climb up the hill, Carrasco fired at them. His two accomplices, who were also armed, soon joined him in the library. Prison guards and director of the Texas Correction Department immediately begin negotiations with inmates. FBI agents and Texas Rangers arrived to help them, when the media came down to Huntsville. Over the next few days the inmates made a number of demands, such as special clothing, shoes, toothpaste, cologne, walkie-talkies and helmet bullets, all of which were provided immediately. With the approval of Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, an armored vacation car rolled into the prison yard. Carrasco claims that they are planning to flee to Cuba and appeal to Fidel Castro.
After an exhausting eleven-day deadlock, the convicts finally made their desperate escape attempt before 10 pm on Saturday 3 August 1974. They moved from the library to a waiting vehicle in an emergency shield composed of law books attached to the board write cellular which later dubbed by the press "Trojan Taco". Inside the shield were three convicts and four hostages, while eight other hostages sounded the "taco" outside.
Acting under a prearranged plan, the prison guards and the Texas Rangers condemned the group with a fire hose. However, the rupture of the hose allowed the convicted person to shoot dead two female hostages who volunteered to join the convicts in the armored car. When the prison officer returned fire, Carrasco committed suicide and one of his legs was killed. Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, who was the on-site reporter for KPRC-TV Houston at the time, later wrote, "This is a tragedy that the two hostages died, it is the miracle of all the others alive."
The two female hostages killed in the incident were Yvonne Beseda and Julia Standley.
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Aftermath
Ignacio Cuevas (July 31, 1931 - May 23, 1991), the survivor, received the Dean's Missile Correspondent Death # 526. Cuevas was accepted as a prisoner to death on May 30, 1975. Cuevas was detained in Unit Ellis, and he was executed on May 23, 1991 Cuevas's last meal requests consist of chicken dumplings, steamed rice, sliced ​​bread, black-eyed peas, and iced tea. Cueva's last words were, "I'm going to a beautiful place, okay, warden, roll them up."
Cultural reference
Tex-Mex musician Joe "King" Carrasco (born Joe Teusch) adopted the surname of the drug king.
"When I play with Mexican bands, they can not say Teusch," he said. "That's when Fred Carrasco tried to get out of Huntsville in 1974 with a big gunfire, and Carrasco was killed, so that week the Mexicans said," We'll call you Carrasco. "
The members of San Antonio have a tribute song entitled "The Death of Fred Gomez Carrasco".
The riots also mentioned during the 5th season Orange is New Black, during the news segment the women witnessed about other prison riots.
References
External links
- "Texas Police Criminal Justice Department: Carrasco Recording Recordings at Texas State Archives, 1974." University of Texas Library .
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